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By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A judge has permanently blocked a ban on virtually all abortions in Ohio as a state…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body has voted Friday to appoint an independent expert to step up…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military appears to want to conscript BTS band members for military…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has held a joint drone drill with the United Kingdom in the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and HERBERT MOYO Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Thousands of voters in Lesotho are casting their ballots in the…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s health minister has said the authorities are inspecting new suspected cases of…

By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A series of explosions rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Financial Services Agency has ordered brokerage SMBC Nikko Securities to suspend its block trading operations for three…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Officials in Denmark are puzzled by four small tremors that were recorded this week off a northeastern Danish island in…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say that two migrants died when they were struck by a train in the eastern part of the country bordering…

By The Associated Press A Ukrainian official says the bodies of 530 people have been discovered in recaptured areas of Kharkiv region since Sept. 7.…

PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia have held talks in Prague in efforts to ease tensions between the two longtime adversaries.  A…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Austrian voters will head to the polls Sunday in the first round of the country’s presidential…

By HANNA ARHIROVA, FRANK JORDANS and VANESSA GERA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won…

By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Saturday marks Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s 100th day…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Good news on the economy remains bad news for Wall Street, as stocks fell sharply…

By LORNE COOK, KAREL JANICEK and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — European Union leaders are meeting in Prague to try to bridge…

By The Associated Press As he turns 70, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds himself in the eye of a storm of his own making: His army is suffering…

HONG KONG (AP) — A superyacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has anchored in Hong Kong as Western governments move to seize yachts…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece has once again put the spotlight…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Friday took the unusual step of overturning a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The two major-party candidates seeking to succeed retiring North Carolina Republican…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Smile flashing, giving a thumbs-up, Emmanuel Macron appears at Europe’s center stage again —…

By REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Relatives wailed and collapsed in grief over the small coffins…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — For a decade, the parents and siblings of people killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The graphic surveillance video shows a man on a sidewalk suddenly punching…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press LA COLOMA, Cuba (AP) — Soldiers fix roofs and raise power poles under a blazing sun, while teachers salvage…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid…

By HERNÁN ÁLVAREZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Police clashed with soccer fans trying to push into an Argentine league match,…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan launched a new round of naval…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly distanced himself from President Joe Biden during his first and…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A parade of character witnesses provided a judge with glowing reports about a southern Arizona…

By AAMER MADHANI, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s warning that the world is at risk of a…

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet who was expelled for becoming a father will get his degree as part of a legal settlement,…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition has suffered a rebuff as 19 members of the Organization of…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines television reporter announced this week on a newscast that she will publicly identify as a transgender woman.…

BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, has died at…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man defending himself against homicide charges for allegedly driving his SUV through a…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Love Goddess” and toured…

By MIKE STOBBE and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The latest government study on teen vaping suggests there’s been little…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Several women and children drowned while trying to escape an armed attack in Nigeria’s…

By STEPHEN SMITH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to designate its first new national monument, preserving…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — Alabama is asking a court to swiftly set a new execution date for an inmate who had his…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two Arkansas deputies who were caught on video violently arresting a suspect outside a convenience store have been fired.…

By BILL BARROW and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WADLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is remaining defiant after…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Diverted ambulances, cancer treatment delayed and electronic health records…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s wolf population appears to be holding steady despite recent changes by lawmakers…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program that incentivizes West Virginia families to pull their children out of K-12…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before he…

NEW YORK (AP) — Boosted by Aaron Judge’s pursuit of Roger Maris’ American League home run record, Yankees games on the team’s YES Network…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The second man to plead guilty in a kidnapping plot against Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to four years in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, CHRIS MEGERIAN and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday effectively acknowledged…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station for NASA,…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a story published October 5, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the Ohio Secretary of State’s office earlier…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting with…

NEWSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — An investigation into an apparent murder-suicide in western New York has led to the discovery of two additional shooting…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is the sole finalist to become president of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says there is a difference in the approaches of Sweden and Finland to meeting Turkey’s…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, the major U.S. theater chains will play a Netflix release after exhibitors and the…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers A judge has delayed a looming trial between Twitter and Elon Musk. The move gives the…

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A white sheriff’s deputy in Michigan was reprimanded after video showed him tell a Black woman who had just been…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have decided to slash the…

By COREY WILLIAMS, CLAIRE SAVAGE and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of fatally shooting a…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid military service have requested asylum…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital city have agreed to pull back on aggressive…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say U.S. special operations forces conducted a raid in northeast Syria…

PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of Turkey and Armenia have held their first face-to-face meeting since the two countries agreed to improve relations.…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz calmly told a psychologist he picked…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is calling for a secret ballot vote next week on a Western-backed resolution that…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says more interest rate increases will be necessary…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed more sanctions on Iranian government officials in response to the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A University of Arizona professor who authorities say was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student was an expert on…

By ERIC TUCKER and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde school officials have abruptly fired a former Texas state trooper who was on scene of the Robb Elementary School…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press The founder and CEO of a Michigan software company accused of stealing data on hundreds of Los Angeles County…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that halted key…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — When North Dakota State College of Science suffered a heartbreaking loss in early September…

HALSEY, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have nearly contained a large wildfire in the Nebraska Sandhills that has burned roughly 30 square miles and led…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — City officials agreed to pay $12 million to the children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police held him down…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi solicitor general has argued to a federal appeals court that the U.S. Justice Department overreached in suing…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The family of the victim in the murder case chronicled in the first season of the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is once again lowering its projections for global economic…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she’d like to set down. The actor, singer entrepreneur and host of “Red Table…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is prohibiting voters from canceling their original absentee ballot and…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — “Missing Millions” is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico (AP) — A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in…